Not that it will be particularly relevant in the local Maltese scene for a while now but we can continue to draw lessons from the various coalition governments or formations around the European political world if we would like to. In Germany, Angela Merkel is preparing for the upcoming election. She has recently pledged to…

Labour Leader Joseph Muscat has awoken from the summer slumber and shows no signs of changing his ways from that of Opinion Poll Sucker. New Labour is not forming into a party with a set of values as its backbone. Rather than a sort of “Third Way” manifesto, Joseph Muscat – a product of the…

This article and accompanying Bertoon appeared in today’s edition of The Malta Independent on Sunday. If I had to engage in a silly exercise of anthropomorphising months – ascribing human features to months – I believe that September would have much to say about the way she has been treated. It has to be a…

J’accuse cannot comment on the news of the day that comes straight from our place of daytime work and that will surely be the subject of many a discussion. The Times of Malta will definitely not be the last paper to misinterpret the court’s decision but it will be up to other legal brains to…

Times online breaking news posted this morning. Title: Blow for Malta as EU heads for bluefin tuna trade ban. First Comment to be posted beneath article: E Vella:  Let’s go out of the EU

Mike Bongiorno, TV presenter was as old as the medium that he came to symbolize. The man who is an integral part of the history of television in Italy has passed away today at the age of 85 in the French city of Montecarlo. I owe Mike my reverential love for quizzes ever since I…